| 31 | Virginia Jackson on Phillis Wheatley ("To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth") 2023-04-10 |
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| 32 | Willard Spiegelman on Amy Clampitt ("Losing Track of Language") 2023-04-03 |
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| 33 | Oren Izenberg on Allen Grossman ("The Life and Death Kisses") 2023-03-27 |
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| 34 | Maya C. Popa on Gerard Manley Hopkins ("Spring and Fall") 2023-03-20 |
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| 35 | Evie Shockley on Ed Roberson ("Open / Back Up (breadth of field)") 2023-03-13 |
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| 36 | Kimberly Quiogue Andrews on Wallace Stevens ("Man Carrying Thing") 2023-03-06 |
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| 37 | Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("February") 2023-02-27 |
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| 38 | Beci Carver on Thomas Hardy ("The Voice") 2023-02-20 |
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| 39 | Christopher Spaide on Terrance Hayes ("The Golden Shovel") 2023-02-13 |
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| 40 | Sarah Dowling on Liz Howard ("True Value") 2023-02-06 |
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Close Readings
One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
